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Brainworx announces bx_shredspread
If you like to rock out hard from time to time Brainworx have something that you will like. Their brandnew M/S stereo width and tone control tool bx_shredspread was designed to bring you the wide and roaring guitar sound of the pros, hassle-free and fast.
Griid now available from iTunes
How could the simple task of launching clips from a controller be improved, making it as intuitive, fun and transparent as possible? Griid is the answer to that question. Griid is an advanced clip grid interface which allows you to control Ableton Live (running on your desktop or laptop) from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Using specially developed touch objects and simple gestures, Griid is carefully designed with the performance experience in mind.
Loopseque simple app for creating music
Loopseque is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere.
Camel Audio releases Planet Earth Sound Library
Camel Audio is really pleased to announce the release of the Planet Earth Sound Library for Alchemy and Alchemy Player. Planet Earth is a new Sound Library packed full of great sounds for electronica, ambient and dance music producers. Until the end of August you can choose what you want to pay for it, with at least 50% of the proceeds going to charity.
Ircam Tools a proper introduction – Video
The IRCAM Tools products express the result of over twenty years of fundamental research within the realms of music related digital signal processing. First out, we present a series of products evolved from two major fields of technology, Acoustic & Cognitive Spaces, and Sound Analysis & Synthesis.
Turntable Tricknology with DJ Shiftee – Video
DJ Shiftee explains some of the special tricks and techniques he used in his live dubstep remix with Traktor Scratch Pro, Kontrol X1 and Maschine (see the original performance here. If you want to create a similar advanced routine with turntables and/or controllers, you should be able to get some inspiration from this video.
Free Richard Devine and VTG signature sets for Virus TI released
Access Music released two free signature sound sets for the Virus TI by Richard Devine and Chicago Electro Rockers VTG. Richard Devine, known for his GlitchCore/TDM influenced sound wasn’t short of effort to create some of the nastiest, noisiest and darkest patches available today. He made extensive use for the recently added Stomp Box Distortion algorithms and Frequency Shifter.
WANT of the century: Emulator on Token Concept
That’s right! Want Of The Century. Often you come across ‘stuff’ that looks neat or you would love to play with. But this is ten times more cool. DJ Pablo Martin pleasantly surprised us with his new project multitouch. He is using his new software Emulator on a Töken Concept table. Looking at the video you know this is just übercool!
Mixed In Key now on your iPhone
The Mixed In Key team has been busy developing new software, first of which is DJ Tempo, available on the iPhone right now. DJ Tempo does automatic BPM detection on your iPhone. Simply select the amount of time you’d like it to analyze the music – 5, 10, or 20 seconds – and touch the Analyze Tempo button. Within seconds, the BPM appears on the screen.
Charles Scott (Bad Robot) using Rob Papen synths – Video
Charles Scott is the resident ‘music guy’ at bad Robot Productions. In the video below he is taking us on a tour of the various Rob Papen softsynths he is using at Bad Robot.
Tek’it Audio release Genobazz to 1.2 – FREE
Genobazz is a free monophonic bass synthesizer plugin, designed to be simple to use, for all your bass need, from simple sine bass to acid bassline.
UA introduces Analog Classics Software Bundle for UAD-2
Universal Audio, a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio recording hardware and developer of the award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform, today announced a significant update to its popular UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages. All UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Packages now feature smaller, “greener” packaging, and include the new “Analog Classics” Software Bundle at no additional cost — the perfect way to inject the true sound of analog gear into the digital domain.
VirSyn iVoxel for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch released
VirSyn are happy to announce that iVoxel – “The singing vocoder” for the Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch platform is available in the App Store now. iVoxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder for iPhone/iPod and iPad, the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine going far beyond the capabilities of traditional and software vocoders on any platform.
Numark iPad DJ Station
Following on the iPod DJ Station, Numark will introduce the iPad DJ Station soon. We’ve got some pictures of it.
Serato Turtorial for Livid Block – Video
A tutorial demonstrating how to use the LIVID INSTRUMENTS “BLOCK” midi controller to control the DJ software SERATO. The video shows you how you can use only the BLOCK to control all the parameters of SERATO without having to use turntables or cdj’s. In a step by step guide the user is visually led thru the process culminating in a live demo of the controller.